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1999-01-05

dbaker [05-Jan-1999 @ 07:22]

Filed under: Uncategorized @ 07:22 +00:00

:: 05-Jan-1999 07:27 (Tuesday) ::

Unfortunately, your stats are once again expected to be low.

Combining the issues with yesterday’s master problems and today’s
upgrades to the the far-from-flawless v300 have the master to get
behind almost half a million blocks.

We’re working around the clock to resolve the difficulties, but I
can’t guarantee that the missing blocks will make it into tomorrow’s
run. Even if the master was performing flawlessly, it would be
difficult to flush an additional 250 megs of buffers into it.

Fear not, your blocks have NOT been lost. They’re sitting safely
in a large queue to be processed. Once the master is stabilized,
I will begin having it process that queue. At that point, I’ll
post here with estimates on when you should expect your stats to
even out.